Summer-Dream-Prelude to Hannah Arendt
Prof. Dr. Juliane Rebentisch: The Crisis of Plurality
Lecture with impulses from Prof. Dr. Juliane Rebentisch's book The Dispute Over Plurality. Confrontations with Hannah Arendt, followed by a discussion.
Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. She is a member of the faculty at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and a Regular Visiting Professor in the German Department at Princeton University. She was President of the German Society for Aesthetics (2015-2018) and Vice President of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach (2014-2020). In 2017, she received the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In October 2024, she will take up a professorship in philosophy at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Her work focuses on aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy. Books include: Ästhetik der Installation (Suhrkamp 2003), Die Kunst der Freiheit. Zur Dialektik demokratischer Existenz (Suhrkamp 2012), Theorien der Gegenwartskunst zur Einführung (Junius 2013), Der Streit um Pluralität. Auseinandersetzungen mit Hannah Arendt (Suhrkamp 2022, nominated for the non-fiction prize of the Leipzig Book Fair).